【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 y try to destroy each other。 but, once Heathcliff is near, Catherine can maintain no illusions about the Lintons. The two are united only in their contempt for the values of Thrushcross Grange.. The failure of reconciling Heathcliff and Linton undermines Catherine’s assertion that she is Heathcliff。 but, because she believes this herself, she thinks it safe for her to marry Edgar Linton: Heathcliff is within her soul. Therefore nothing can dislodge him. Nonetheless, it is clear from the way they wound one another that each is in continual need of reassurancesomething that occurs only between two separate people. Catherine thinks only of her reassurance of her own feelings. She does not consider Heathcliff’s need for proof of those feelings. She does not believe she needs to behave in accordance with her feelings, and so, blind to the meaning of her action, she marries Edgar. We can know this from what Heathcliff demands of her when she is dying.‘‘You love me’’, cries Heathcliff,“then what right had you to leave me? What rightanswer mefor the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken you hartyou have broken it。 and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”7‘‘what right had you to leave me?’’ is the cry of outraged passion. Catherine thought that she could slip beneath passions’ net and take the offer of Edgar’s love, but she is destroyed by her defiance. Her own emotional greed is drawn like a noose round Heathcliff’s neck, but she thought he would be satisfied by her own inward assurance that they were one person. Her passion was so real that marriage to her had no reality. Catherine is held by the Grange’s soft restrains, trapped by the limitations of moral life, by her nature, her society, and her physical body, by that shattered prison which binds her to this world. At the end of the story, Catherine said that she did not know herself in the mirror. From this she realized that she, as adults, as the mistress of Thrushcross Grange, is not the same one as the little Catherine who is wild, vigorous, headstrong and untamedthe nature that bonds them together and felt that a betrayal of what binds them is betrayal of everything, of all that is most valuable in the life. Once a human being is deprived of his most valuable in the lifehis true self, he has no meaning of existence in this world. Death, for Catherine, is the only release.4. The reasons of Catherine’s tragic loveLove tragedy es into being naturally. The author, Emily Bronte, cannot find an effective way to save her heroine, but let her die, wishing she would enjoy her other self after her death. Because Emily Bronte knows clearly that Catherine’s love tragedy rises from many reasons. So the efforts to save her heroine are doomed to be in vain. Personal reasons Her distorted view on marriageShe has a distorted view on marriage. For example, Catherine looks at marriage as a means of achieving outward sophistication, as well as an escape from mental and emotional stagnation: Edgar is the man who will define her, who will shape her identity and give her status“He will be rich, and I shall be the greatest woman of the neighborhood, and I shall be proud to have such a husband,”8 She tells Nelly Dean. Catherine’s selfish and shortsighted attitude toward marriage is an indicative of her childish sensibilities. It is well to ask why she marries Edgar at all, considering her feelings for Heathcliff。 her na?ve belief that she can have both Edgarwho represents culture and security and Heathcliff, who is the embodiment of sexual and natural energy, proves her plete inability to understand reality outside of her own narrow perspective. When Nelly Dean suggests that by marrying Edgar, Catherine will lose Heathcliff, she is incredulous:“Oh, that’s not what I intendedthat’s not what I mean! I shouldn’t be Mrs. Linton were such a price demanded! He’ll be as much to me as he has been all his lifetime. Edgar must shake off his antipathy and tolerance him, at least. He will when he learns my true feelings….”It is obvious that Catherine is entering marriage with the stubborn adolescent sensibility that she can have her cake and eat it, too. Of course, this has been her spoiled way of looking at life all along。 many times in the novel Bronte portrays Catherine as a selfish, demanding, manipulative child.“I demand it!” is, in fact, Catherine’s favorite expression, and pletely consistent with the adolescent determination to have everything. Her selfcentrednessHer narcissism is another element to cause her tragic love. Catherine’s disregard for othersall others, except her otherself, Heathcliffhas a cruel, manipulative quality that takes pleasure in deceitfulness and in“punishing” others for their lack of devotion to her. Her many melodramatic‘‘scenes’’ illustrate Catherine’s acting talent in the service of narcissism: as a child, after an argument with Edgar Linton, she says to him,“…get away! And now I’ll cry myself sick!” and she proceeds to deliver a perfect fit of weeping which softens poor Edgar’s heart. Catherine never outgrows the